Compositions for Stage

“The Human Comedy”. Music to the Play

  • Opus 37
  • 1933-1934
  • Premiere:
    01 April 1934

    Moscow. Vakhtangov Theatre. Directors: A. Kozlovsky and B. Shchukin
  • First publication:
    D.Shostakovich, Collected Works, Vol. 27, Moscow, 1986
  • Manuscripts:
    The hand-written score is in the Russian State Archive for Literature and Art, (Stack 2048, Inv. 3, Item 33)

The Human Comedy. Music to the Play

Op. 37


Music for the play Human Comedy by O. Balzac. Dramatization Of P. Sukhotin.

Written in the years 1933 to 1934 in Leningrad.

The autograph of the score is kept in the Central state archive of literature and art of Saint Petersburg. An incomplete manuscript of the score, which differs in its instrumentation and sequence of elements, is kept in the Vakhtangov Theater Museum.
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